Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (549 mails)

["Fred A. Miller" <fmiller@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/11/2009 09:22 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 12/11/09 13:08, Larry Stotler wrote:
>   
> > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >   
> >     
> > > Don't let kde4 worry you. You'll get used to it in minutes.
> > >     
> > >       
> > Nope.  Still haven't gotten used ot it.  Too much going on.
> >   
> >     
> Not really. To me kde4 is looking just like kde3 did - the only think
> missing is the ability to have different wallpapers on each separate
> desktop. I know that this can be done thru Activities, but this is not
> for me and I am happy with what I see.
>
>   
> > > The only thing is *not* to Enable all the desktop effects and save lots
> > > of cpu cycles in not running all the eye-candy.
> > >     
> > >       
> > Yeah, I requested that KPersonalizer get ported to make that easy, but
> > didn't happen yet.
> >   
> >     
> Oh, is there some sort of Personalizer which may need tweeking? I just
> did not tick the Enable box in Desktop settings.
>
>   
> > > Also, download and compile the nVidia driver from nVidia. Makes a BIG
> > > difference. The "default" excuse for an nvidia driver installed by 11.2
> > > only gave me ~136fps (using glxgears), the compiled driver (190.42)
> > > gives me ~3660fps.
> > >     
> > >       
> > I haven't installed the nVidia driver on his machine yet.  Was hoping
> > that the repo would be up but haven't seen it yet(haven't looked today
> > tho).
> >   
> >     
> Now, am I mistaken and did not understand what I think I may have read,
> but I thought that nVidia driver is no longer available as part of
> zypper or YaST because nvidia decided that it is a proprietary driver
> and will not make it available except thru their own site?
>   
I think that is in error.....it's supposed to be available, although I
haven't seen it yet and need to! ;)

Fred

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